Franz Wright Quotes

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The humiliation I go through/when I think of my past/can only be described as grace./We are created by being destroyed.

Franz Wright
Should each individual snowflake be held accountable for the avalanche?

Franz Wright
I believe one day the distance between myself and God will / disappear.

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The long silences need to be loved, perhaps more than the words which arrive to describe them in time.

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This is no occupation for an adult who can look other adults in the eye, carry his own weight, and count himself one of them.

Franz Wright
EPITAPH Now I'm not the brightest knife in the drawer, but I know a couple things about this life: poverty silence, impermanence discipline and mystery The world is not illusory, we are From crimson thread to toe tag If you are not disturbed there is something seriously wrong with you, I'm sorry And I know who I am I'll be a voice coming from nowhere, inside— be glad for me.

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I basked in you; I loved you, helplessly, with a boundless tongue-tied love. And death doesn't prevent me from loving you. Besides, in my opinion you aren't dead. (I know dead people, and you are not dead.)

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But if they were condemned to suffer this unending torment, sooner or later wouldn't they become the holy?

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And the night smells like snow.
Walking home for a moment
you almost believe you could start again.
And an intense love rushes to your heart,
and hope. It's unendurable, unendurable.

Franz Wright